[Micah]

Hmm, I just ran Calmon's upload 4 times and 3 of the 4 times it went to defender rout, just to add some more data points to the scenario.

Regardless, check out my post about the risk vs reward factor. Even if you have a 50% success rate at killing off the phantasms the MoD caster really isn't out much more than a few mage turns and gems for each attempt if you're unable to kill off the casting mage(s).

Beckoning costs 20 gems, Shimmering fields has crappy range, and murdering winter is 50. Much like some of your proposed counters in the other thread I'm getting a bit suspicious of the claims you're making, K...